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- Shui Wakashu
Au koto o machishi tsukihi no hodo yori mo kyō no kure koso hisashikarikere
Longer than all the months and days I waited for us to meet seems this single day of waiting until evening.
Shui Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Akatsuki no nakaramashikaba shiratsuyu no okite wabishiki wakare semashi ya
If there were no such thing as dawn, would I rise, as the white dew settles, to go through so bitter a parting?
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Aimite mo nao nagusamanu kokoro kana iku chiyo nete ka koi no samu beki
Even after we have met, my heart is still not consoled; how many thousand nights must we sleep together before I wake from this love?
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Mubatama no koyoi na ake so akeyukaba asa yuku kimi o matsu kurushiki ni
Do not let this night end; if it gives way to dawn, how painful it will be to wait again for you, who leave in the morning.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Hitorineshi toki wa matareshi tori no ne mo mare ni au yo wa wabishikarikeri
The cock's crow I waited for when I slept alone sounds so forlorn on the rare nights we meet.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Katsuragi ya ware ya wa Kume no hashitsukuri akeyuku hodo wa mono o koso omoe
Am I, then, the god of Katsuragi who built the bridge at Kume? As the night gives way to dawn, how deeply I brood.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Asa madaki tsuyu wakekitsuru koromode no hiruma bakari ni koishiki ya nazo
Early this morning I came home parting the dew, and in the little while it takes my sleeves to dry, in the daytime hours, why do I long for you so?
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Yukitoki
Futatsu naki kokoro wa kimi ni okitsuru o mata hodo mo naku koishiki ya nazo
I left my heart, the only one I have, with you as I rose to go; why, then, do I long for you again so soon?
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kiyokage
Itsushika to kure o matsu ma no ōzora wa kumoru sae koso ureshikarikere
While I wait impatiently for evening to come, even the clouding over of the great sky makes me glad.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hi no uchi ni mono o futatabi omou kana toku akenuru to osoku kururu to
Within a single day I brood twice: that the night has ended so soon, and that the evening is so slow to come.
Shui Wakashu - Ōe no Tamemoto
Momohagaki hane kaku shigi mo waga gotoku ashita wabishiki kazu wa masaraji
Even the snipe that beats its wings a hundred times could not outnumber the sorrows I count each morning.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Utsutsu ni mo yume ni mo hito ni yoru shi aeba kureyuku bakari ureshiki wa nashi
Whether in waking or in dreams, it is at night that I meet my love, so nothing is so welcome as the coming of dusk.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akatsuki no wakare no michi o omowazu wa kureyuku sora wa ureshikaramashi
If I did not think of the road home after parting at dawn, how glad I would be of the sky as it darkens toward evening.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi kouru namida no kōru fuyu no yo wa kokoro toketaru i ya wa neraruru
On winter nights when even the tears I shed in longing for you freeze, how could I sleep a sleep of easy, thawed heart?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kakarade mo arinishi mono o shirayuki no hitohi mo fureba masaru waga koi
I had lived well enough without this, yet like white snow piling deeper with each day's fall, my love grows with every day that passes.
Shui Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira
Asagōri tokuru ma mo naki kimi ni yori nado te sohotsuru tamoto naruran
Because of you, who never thaw, like morning ice that has no time to melt, why should my sleeves be so drenched?
Shui Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu